Dan Empfield had Litespeed make him a gravel bike and he dubbed that bike Freedom. Litespeed has pushed it even further and offers it as the T5 gravel.

Learn what the top 15 male Pros in Kona used in terms of bikes, components and other gear, plus lots of numbers of these super fast Ironman athletes.

Aussie Levi Maxwell won the M25-29 category in Kona with a 8:52:14 time but it was not an easy path to the Big Island for this talented young athlete.

We noticed aero shoe covers from Orca, fancy new aero shoes from Mavic, mustached men in triathlon, a Kona viewing party in Denver and more.

Kevin Pauwels and Sanne Cant won the 2014 Super Prestige cross race in Zonhoven, but the amazing part of this event is the massive amount of spectators.

Following a report that an officer in California might be misinterpreting the state’s new 3-foot law, we interviewed the dean of bicycle attorneys, former Olympic cyclist Bob Mionske.

Are laws designed to protect cyclists being used against them by officers who don’t like cyclists? This might have happened last week, and we interviewed the California Highway Patrol.

24-year old Austrian Pro Matthias Brändle scorched the Swiss Aigle track with a record breaking 1-hour performance aboard a Scott Plasma with a 51.852 km distance.

Jackie Fairweather, 1996 ITU Triathlon and Duathlon World champion, 2:32:40 marathoner, inaugural coach of the Australian Institute of Sport Triathlon program, died at the age of 46.

Here now are the top 15 female finishers of the 2014 GoPro Ironman World Championships on their bikes with many details, numbers and facts.

The first November Weekend Box brings a swimless Ironman, a Senior Citizen victory, a South African 5i50, a new UCI hour record and a prominent marathoner drug positive.

With Ironman Maryland not featuring a Pro category the race was wide open and when it was all said and done Matt Bach was the new Ironman champion.

Aaron Royle defended his 2013 title in a sprint finish with Dan Wilson and Ryan Bailie and Ashleigh Gentle cruised to a 48 seconds win over Paula Findlay at the Noosa Triathlon.

Timothy O’Donnell was one of the favorites for Kona but as much as his heart and mind wanted, his body did not comply. He had a few words with us about that day.

We bumped into age grouper Jim Hall at the Kona airport where he and his wife gave up their plane seats on an overbooked flight. Here is our chat with him.

Relief, exultation, exhaustion, joy, pain, love – all these emotions and more can be found at the magical finish line after 140.6 miles of the Ironman World Championship in Kona.

We showed the top 15 women a few days ago and today we share stats and gear of the top 15 men during the run at the 2014 GoPro Ironman Worlds.

Every year we collect images and data of the top 15 Pros and we start today with the best overall placed women during the run, with gear and stats.

Rudy wins in Kona! No surprise there. How does this comport with the real world use of helmets by triathletes, or at least by Slowtwitchers?

If a company’s athlete wins Ironman, can it say that without paying Ironman? Can the athlete say it? As with winning an Olympic medal, the answer is yes and no.

Eric Limkemann’s season was perfected with the birth of a baby daughter, but the man also has to race hard now to provide. Here is his Specialized Shiv.

The weekend tri-action includes a Canadian and a German enjoying a return to form in South Beach, a rousing finale for the Life Time Series in Oceanside and a mellow 70.3 in Texas.

Former pro mountain biker Ruben Ruzafa of Spain won his 3rd XTERRA World Championship and Flora Duffy of Bermuda led the women’s field despite a jarring crash at XTERRA Maui.

Top men and women pros speak their minds on the eve of the 19th XTERRA World Championship which will be held Sunday on a rugged course on the northwest shores of Maui.